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Better Data, Better Future: Why the quality of foresight now depends on the quality of data
This blog is the fourth in the SIP blog series, a set of blogs shared among the partners of the Sustainable Innovation Pathways project. This cross-border, collaborative effort brings together foresight, financial forecasting and technology readiness levels to understand where companies, industries, and countries can best decarbonise. In the first blogs in this series, we made the case that decarbonisation has firmly entered the realpolitik sphere, surviving not because it is
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Decarbonisation in a Populist Age
This blog is the third in the SIP blog series, a set of blogs shared among the partners of the Sustainable Innovation Pathways project. This cross-border, collaborative effort brings together foresight, financial forecasting and technology readiness levels to understand where companies, industries, and countries can best decarbonise. In the first two blogs, we argued that net zero has been absorbed into realpolitik and defence strategy. Climate action survives because it now
Dec 18, 20257 min read
The Defence-Economy Paradox: Why Decarbonisation Has Become Defence Strategy
This blog is the second in the SIP blog series, a set of blogs shared among the partners of the Sustainable Innovation Pathways project. This cross-border, collaborative effort brings together foresight, financial forecasting and technology readiness levels to understand where companies, industries, and countries can best decarbonise. In the first blog in this series about our Sustainable Innovation Pathways (SIP) initiative, we argued that net zero has moved from being an e
Dec 4, 20256 min read
The EXTRA Information Hub
The EXTRA Information Hub is a new initiative of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS). The World Academy of Arts and...
Oct 8, 20254 min read
Resilience 2.0: Empowering the EU to Thrive amid Turbulence and Uncertainty
The EU’s 2025 Strategic Foresight Report focuses on resilience, dealing with the increasing levels of uncertainty in its environment. It...
Sep 24, 20255 min read
The Shape of Things to Come – Today Part 2
In part 1 of this blog, I looked at H.G. Wells’s novel The Shape of Things to Come , published in 1933, and examined what he got right...
Jun 25, 20254 min read
The Shape of Things to Come – Today: Part 1
Introduction Not nearly enough attention is paid today to H.G. Wells , one of the giants of foresight. What is distinctive about his...
Jun 18, 20255 min read
The UN Summit of the Future: Part 3
THE AFTERMATH In my two earlier blogs, I looked at what occurred at the Summit and the outcome document. In this third blog, I shall...
Jun 11, 20254 min read
The UN Summit of the Future: Part 2
THE PROCEEDINGS AND THE IMMEDIATE REACTION In my first blog on the UN Summit of the Future I considered the outcome document: “The Pact...
Jun 4, 20254 min read
The UN Summit of the Future: Part 1
THE OUTCOME DOCUMENT: “PACT FOR THE FUTURE” Introduction In September, 2021, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, published a...
May 29, 20255 min read
Futures Practice in an Age of AI – Beyond Prediction to Engagement
This is an edited version of the presentation which Jonathan Blanchard Smith delivered to the Futures4Europe Conference 2025, held in...
May 22, 20254 min read
Beyond Scenarios: Five Ways AI Is Reshaping Strategic Foresight
Most of us who think about the future—professionally, strategically, or just out of curiosity—have probably tried asking ChatGPT to...
May 15, 20255 min read
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